Mythical heroines : the appropriation of myth in reconstructing female identities in ethnic American literature

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Goh, I-Mei
• مؤلفون آخرون: Andrew Corey Yerkes
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2012
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::American
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48825
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

David Adams Leeming, in Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero, asserts that “the journey of life is the search for the self—for the personal myth which is veiled in the local and the immediate but which, on a deeper level, is but an expression of the world myth” (6). This essay will explore the ways in...